#Video
Tag for sharing video content before native video hosting existed on social platforms.
Quick Facts
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| First Appeared | March 2007 |
| Origin Platform | |
| Category | entertainment |
| Status | evergreen |
| Est. Lifetime Posts | 3B+ |
Origin & Impact
In Twitter’s early days, users shared YouTube links with #video to surface visual content in text-dominated timelines. The hashtag helped videos go viral before Twitter supported native uploads (2015).
#Video tracked the rise of online video consumption—from viral clips to vlogs to web series. It remains active though often replaced by platform-specific tags (#YouTuber, #TikTok).
The hashtag represents the transition period when video was supplementary to text, before becoming the dominant content format across all social platforms.